2012 Chairman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In 2012, she began to brief the committee from february up through april of 2012. chairman issa accused her in a letter the other day of committing false statements, accused her of a crime. so when you're accusing someone of a crime, any attorney will tell the witness to invoke the fifth amendment, but it has absolutely no invocation of the central story, nobody outside the subordinates in the irs had knowledge, activity or involvement. >> and a time when congress understood the most effective investigation is criminal investigation by the fbi, that's already going on, and the only thing congr...

To prosecute, you would have to get citation of contempt to the committee, you would have to go to the floor, if you could get a contempt citation passed on the floor, you would have to have it enforced, that could take months or years. for the committee to get bogged in this process seems to me to be a very foolish move, even if you're the most partisan republican in this case. but i do think it is very important for viewers to understand why she's invoking the fifth amendment. and again, as i said, it doesn't imply any widening of the so-called scandal. lois lerner in 2011 in june of 2011 le...